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First Public Working Drafts: Confidence Method v1.0 and Verifiable Credential Rendering Methods v1.0
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Confidence Method v1.0 defines a mechanism that can be used with the Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0 to increase a verifier's confidence about a particular subject identified in a verifiable credential. Verifiable Credential Rendering Methods v1.0 describes mechanisms that can be used to represent a Verifiable Credential through a visual, auditory, or haptic medium.
Upcoming: W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
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The goals of this workshop are to identify stakeholders of Voice Agents standardization to drive the development of Web standards aligned with the real needs of Voice Agents, and to clarify reasonable applications for Voice Agents technologies we agree to build.
Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections and Additions to Geolocation
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Geolocation provides access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device.
First Public Working Draft: CSS Anchor Positioning Module Level 2
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This specification defines anchor positioning, where an positioned element can size and position itself relative to one or more anchor elements elsewhere on the page.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is now an approved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard: ISO/IEC 40500:2025.
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note
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This specification defines guidelines that use planetary, people, and prosperity principles (the PPP approach) throughout the decision-making process, allowing users to minimize their environmental impact in various ways.
First Public Working Draft: CSS Environment Variables Module Level 1
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This specification defines the concept of environment variables and the env() function, which work similarly to custom properties and the var() function, but are defined globally for a document.
First Public Working Draft: Semantic Sensor Network Ontology - 2023 Edition
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The Semantic Sensor Network ontology (SSN) describes actuators and their actuations, sensors and their observations, samplers and their samplings, the procedures implemented, the features of interest and samples changed or studied, and the actuated and observed properties.
Group Note: CSS Snapshot 2025
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This document collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as of 2025.
